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RE: Guy marries anti-VAXXER, gradually gets her to vaccinate her daugher. How touching.

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Great work !

I didn't subject myself to reading the article about the anti-vaxxer who was converted, your synopsis was enough to get me annoyed. Those six examples you gave were spot on. Most people I know share at least one of those views and it is quite frustrating !

I only started questioning things about ten years ago and I hadn't gone far enough down the rabbit hole and changed my worldview sufficiently to refuse vaccinations for my children when they were very young. Thankfully they both seem unaffected but I can assure you that my daughter will not be getting the Gardasil vaccine when it is offered to her and I now refuse the yearly flu shot they are offered.

Although most people are unwilling/unable to question what they have been conditioned and propagandised into believing about vaccinations and the world in general, more and more are waking up and starting to ask questions. I think it is a mistake to judge or criticise the people who still believe what I myself believed up until relatively recently. I'm 41 today and it's taken me over 10 years to gradually process the massive amount of life changing information I have discovered and there is so much more to learn.

We should be kind, caring and understanding to those who we wish to bring around to our way of thinking, even when they insult us and get angry with us. I'll put up with their arrogance, perceived superiority and rudeness because I understand and because I used to believe more than one of the six examples you gave.

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Hi Jim,

I hear ya. I'm, unlike you, a forty-year veteran of being condemned, fired, called every name in the book and financially devastated for knowing and speaking the truth. Sometimes (like this morning) it gets the best of me.

I stand properly and necessarily criticized for the tone of this article. I need to remember to always speak out of love, not out of pain or bitterness.

Thank you, brother.

Thanks for the kind reply. I was hoping you wouldn't feel that I was being condescending/patronising.

43 years !!!

I really hope humanity wakes sufficiently before I reach my 43rd year of wakefulness. I don't know if I will be able to take it if things are still the same in 30 years time.

I've never really suffered in any serious way due to my beliefs or for speaking out. I've been lucky (or maybe not vocal enough ;-) so can't really understand how hard it would be to stop the bitterness and pain from surfacing.

Take care my friend.

Jim, if I didn't already know you and your good heart, I might have reacted differently... or just ignored it.

Thanks again for the reminder.

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